In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Cauchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>Besides the Aeneid, in how many other ancient writings (pre- and >>post-Virgil) does the story of the Trojan Horse and, particularly, the >>role of Sinon, appear? > >Lempriere in his Classical Dictionary cites the following references at the >end of the article on Sinon: > >Dares Phrygius; Homer, Odyssey 8.492 and 11.521; Virgil, Aeneid 2.79ff.; >Pausanias 10, chap. 27; and lastly "Q. Smyrn. 10" (whoever and whatever >that is). Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica; a late imperial poem on events after the Iliad, not very wonderful but with a rather good episode in book 10 when the wounded Paris begs Oenone to heal him; she gives him the brush- off ('Get out of my house and go to Helen'), then decides too late that she does still love him after all and throws herself on his funeral pyre.
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